Consorting with Romance: A Spicy MM Romance by Rayne Hawthorne

Author:Rayne Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Rayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: N/A
Published: 2024-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

Ash

It was cold, and the trains had finished running for the night. I wandered aimlessly for a while, but in the end, I had nowhere else to go. I found myself at the office, hovering over the desk, writing Jesse a check for the next year’s wages.

He’d be better off. He’d have the money he needed, and he wouldn’t have to worry about working while he finished school. He could have a normal life, untethered to someone who should so clearly be alone.

I found myself staring at his name. My thumb tracing over my handwritten script as if somehow, he was connected to the compilation of letters in a way that would allow him to feel my touch.

Check still in hand, I made my way to the kitchen and fished around for the unopened bottle of whiskey a client had given me a few years back. I rarely drank. It was inappropriate during business hours, and it solved nothing anyway. Problems were still there when you sobered up. I didn’t care.

I took a long drink from the bottle before making my way back to the desk. Another before I could bring myself to scrawl his name and address on an envelope, and another before I could slip the check inside. I found myself sitting on the waiting room couch staring at the desk.

It already felt unbearably empty without his hulking form leisurely reading a textbook. I couldn’t endure the thought of no longer seeing him smiling up at me as I passed through the main area. I lost control of everything I’d been holding on to so tightly and sobs wracked through my body. The only other time I’d cried that way was when my father had died decades ago. I couldn’t stop it. I didn’t even try.

My God. Had I been in an accident? How was it possible for a head to hurt this severely while still attached to a body?

I groaned as I brought a hand up to rub my forehead and shield my eyes. I cracked one eye open tentatively in an attempt to figure out why it was so bright. Maybe I was an ant under a magnifying glass.

Opening the eye was a mistake and a new rush of pain flooded through my head. At least I’d figured out the light. I was at the office, laying on my back on the couch with one arm and one leg dangling off the side. Morning sunlight streamed through the windows.

What the actual fuck had happened?

I shifted slightly and my fingertips brushed the tip of something smooth and a loud clatter echoed through the room. Right. The bottle. I’d left Jesse and drunk myself into this mess at the office. This is why you don’t drink, Ash. I mentally berated myself. With a Herculean effort I didn’t know I was capable of; I shifted into a sitting position and buried my face in my hands to block out the world. When I finally raised my eyes with a deep sigh, I froze.

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